Wednesday, March 03, 2010

The strangest thing at SPA was this. A tree in a tree. Not sure where it fell from or how it got stuck there, but every time we left our townhouse, there it was.

and what does it look like to you? Hmmmm. Didn't see that till now.

We didn't notice it the first time we walked by, but then there it was. Not surprising though, (the not noticing) with weather like this on Saturday. You can see we boogied between the hotels when we had to go outside. No looking up, no checking out things in trees.

Better than a tree in a tree, though, is a hat in a hat. In another hat. It's the Baby Hat Terducken I had posted about before, and it's looking done now. A newborn size, inside a 3-6 month size, inside a 6-12 month size.

Like little building blocks.

Besides baby hats, I've been working up the Calvados pattern here in the background. I'm actually pretty close to being done. One of the most interesting things at SPA (well, for me...) was back at the townhouse when my friends all took out the sweater and tried it on. Different shapes and different sizes. It was very cool to see the mods I was thinking about on different people and where things were or weren't tight with the proportions I had used. I have added more notes into the pattern and put my new learnin' to use.

However, the most daunting job (and the one I need to be doing NOW) is to figure out the cables for each size. It's a little more complicated than you'd think, since the buttons have to go IN the cables. I can't just repeat the pattern all the way up, adding 2" each size. Instead I have to figure the best way to chart where each size goes from alternating cables to just buttonhole cables -- and here's the kicker -- while making sure no one gets a Button Nipple.

Important stuff, right?

trees in trees, hats in hats, and buttons (hopefully not nipples) in cables..

I love this theme! Yah - it must be someone's christmas tree. Weird. I love those hats. I am so looking forward to this pattern. Buttons/bobbles/concentric pattern in the boob region is not good, I agree!

Anything can happen in Maine...Once we saw fish bait strewn all over I295 near the Freeport exit. Evidently a truck carrying the ripe fish did not clear the preceding bridge and it overturned spilling its contents. Great seeing you last weekend, Thea.